Baseball Heroes #nn

1952-01-01 · 36 pages

This anthology issue profiles several legendary baseball players from the sport's Hall of Fame. Featured stories include "Frankie Frisch, the Fordham Flash," a perfect switch-hitter who sparked the Giants to four straight pennants and was a base-stealing champion; "Charlie Gehringer, the Mechanical Man," a flawless Detroit Tigers fielder and second baseman renowned for dazzling double plays; "The Hall of Fame Batterymen," covering catchers Jim O'Rourke and William B. "Buck" Ewing, and notably Michael J. "King" Kelly, famous for his rowdy base-running and stealing eighty-four bases in 1887; and "Walter Johnson, the Big Train," the greatest pitcher of all time who fanned 3,467 batters and pitched 346 innings in his greatest year of 1913.

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